Tuesday, May 30, 2023

What a disaster: Get on the bus


THE BIG BUS

1976
Directed by James Frawley
Written by Lawrence J. Cohen and Fred Freeman

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, May 29, 2023

It's an almost vanished way of life, not easy to hold onto... and terribly expensive to maintain


FITZWILLY

1967
Directed by Delbert Mann
Written by Isobel Lennart (based on the novel A Garden of Cucumbers by Poyznt Tyler)

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, May 22, 2023

The Encyclopedia Brown: Anything's easy for a woman


POSSESSED

1931
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by Lenore J. Coffee (based on the play The Mirage by Edgar Selwyn)

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, May 20, 2023

The Encyclopedia Brown: My mother was a saint


THIS MODERN AGE

1931
Directed by Nick Grindé and Clarence Brown
Written by John Meehan, Sylvia Thalberg, and Frank Butler (based on the short story "Girls Together" by Mildred Cram)

Spoilers: mild

Sunday, May 14, 2023

Galaxy's edge


GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

2023
Written and directed by James Gunn

Spoilers: moderate to high

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

The Encyclopedia Brown: Ace attorney


A FREE SOUL

1931
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by John Meehan and Becky Gardiner (based on the play by Willard Mack based on the book by Adela Rogers St. Johns)

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, May 7, 2023

You'll bury us all


WHAT A WAY TO GO!

1964
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Gwen Davis

Spoilers: moderate

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Towering with you


THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS

2004
Written and directed by Makoto Shinkai

Spoilers: moderate (also discussed, Shinkai's early short films, 1999's "She and Her Cat" and 2002's "Voices of a Distant Star")